Motorcycle Mechanics in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,830
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$10,140
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,341
Connecticut costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Connecticut — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$51,970
Kept after tax
$41,830
Worth in national money
$40,341
State rank
12
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Connecticut pays motorcycle mechanics a middle wage of $51,970, ranking 12 of 45 states and sitting about 6.98% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Connecticut, this sits in the middle: 338 of 482 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Connecticut is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $51,970 the take-home is $41,830; in national-average money that behaves like $40,341. The average comes to $54,600, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Connecticut's median for motorcycle mechanics is $51,970, about 6.98% above the national figure and 12 of 45 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Motorcycle mechanics ranks 338 of 482 occupations in Connecticut by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for motorcycle mechanics in Connecticut, on $51,970, is $41,830; deflated by the state's price level, $40,341. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $54,600 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Motorcycle Mechanics
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,710 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,970 |
| Top tenth earn over | $72,080 |
| This salary | $51,970 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Connecticut | $41,830 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,938 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,874 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $49,346 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,894 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $51,970 as a midpoint for Connecticut, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $40,710 and the ninetieth is $72,080 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $41,830 take-home in Connecticut comes from $51,970. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 338 of 482.
- Two cautions on $40,341, the adjusted value of that $51,970 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Connecticut. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 338 of 482 locally.
- The Connecticut median of $51,970 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $40,710 to $72,080. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $41,830, from $51,970, assumes a single Connecticut filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 338 of 482 locally, and the state ranks 12 of 45 for it.
- This $40,341 adjusted figure, worked from $51,970, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 338 of 482 in the state. The occupation ranks 338 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $54,600, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $40,710 at the tenth percentile, $72,080 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Connecticut costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $40,341 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Connecticut adds its own income tax on top — which is why $41,830 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Connecticut is $54,600. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($40,710 to $72,080) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Connecticut rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Connecticut's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $40,341 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $41,830 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Connecticut income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.